changeset comment Contributed-by: line

Joe Darcy Joe.Darcy at Sun.COM
Mon Sep 14 18:44:31 PDT 2009


On 09/13/09 01:04 PM, John Coomes wrote:
> The description of the Contributed-by: line in
>
> 	http://openjdk.java.net/guide/producingChangeset.html
>
> is simply:
>
> 	The contributed-by line is optional.
>
> That doesn't provide much guidance.  Can someone update it to this (or
> something similar)?
>
> 	The contributed-by line is optional; if present, it is a list
> 	of comma-separated email addresses.  It should be included
> 	only if the author of the code does not have commit rights to
> 	the target repository, and thus would not otherwise receive
> 	acknowledgement.
>
> -John
>
>   

Done.

-Joe



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